Case for talking-machines.



No. 725,815. PATENTED APR. 21, 1903.

' W. BARNES. CASE FOR TALKING MACHINES.

APPLICATION FILED SEPT. 24, 1902.

NO MODEL.

Walier Barnes v UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

WALTER BARNES, OF TOLEDO, OHIO.

CASE FOR TALKING-MACHINES.

I SPECIFICATION formingpart of Letters Patent No. 725,815, dated April 21, 1903.

Application filed September 24, 1902. Serial No. 124,693. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be itknown that LVVALTER BARNES, a resident of Toledo, in the county of Lucas and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Cases for Talking- Machines; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention,such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it pertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to devices for storing and carrying talking-machines.

The main object of the invention is to provide a simple efficient case for said purpose in which the separated parts of the talkingmachine shall be securely held in place and shall be fully exposed when the cover part of the case is open.

Another object is to provide for holding record-disks of difierent sizes and utilizing certain waste space caused by the different sizes of the disk-receiving recesses.

In theaccompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a side View of the case closed. Fig. 2 is a side View of the case open. Fig. 3'is a side View of the case open with the parts of a talking-machine therein, and Fig. 4 is a sectional View showing detail.

The body 1 of the case may be made of wood, tin, or other suitable material, having in the modification, Fig. 4, an outer coating 2, of cloth. Said body is large at one end and tapers toward the opposite end, as shown. The body is made in tw0 like parts 3 '4, normally fastened together by hinges 5, secured to the parts 3 4 toward their larger ends. 6 indicates a lock of suitable form, preferably a spring-lock, for locking parts 3 4 together when the case is closed. A catch 6 is placed on the small end of part 4 and a pin 6 on part 3 for 6 to engage. large recess 7, substantially rectangular, into which the talking-machine cabinet can be placed, leaving, however, substantially half thereof projecting. (See Fig. 3.) This member of the case also has a recess 8, adapted to receive record-disks 9 of large diameter and a second smaller recess 10 for record-disks 11 of less diameter.

12 indicates a large tapering recess for the talking-machine horn and its supportingarm Member 3 has a.

Owing to the difference of diameter of recesses 8 10,there is a semiannular waste space 16 in the body of the case, a part of which space I utilize fora recess 17, forming a holder for an extra sound-box. At the opposite edge of part 3 I form 'a small recess 19 for reproducer-needles, and this recess may Or may not have a sliding cover 20.

.As already stated, part 4 is substantially like part 3 in form and construction; but it has not or need not have parts corresponding to the sound-box holder 17 nor-to the needleholder 19. r

21 22 are holders, respectively, for pliers and for an oil-can within one of the parts, forming the horn-holder.

Evidently when part 4 is closed onto part .3 the several parts of the talking-machine will be held therebyin their respective chambersor recesses, Preferably the recesses 7 are formed with an undercut groove 7 into which the extending edge '7 of the cabinetbottom fits, the groove and edge thus assisting in holding the cabinet firmly in place. Only two large disks 9 and two small disks 11 are shown in place in Fig. 3; but in practice a larger number of each would be carried.

In Fig. 4 a layer of cloth 2 is shown over the wooden body; but this is not essential.

Having described my invention, what I claim is 1. A case for talking-machines consisting of two similar parts movably held together, each part having a recess to receive su bstantially one-half of a talking-machine cabinet, a semicircular recess of large diameter to receive substantially one-half of each of the record-disks of large diameter, a smaller semicircular recess to receive record-disks of smaller diameter, and a holder for another part of the talking-machine in the space between the edges of the two recesses for record-disks of different sizes.

2. A tapering case for talking-machines having at its larger end a cabinet-receiving recess, an undercut groove in the sides of the latter recess, adapted to be engaged by a projecting part of a cabinet, said case having at the smaller end a horn-chamber, and inter- 

